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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2017 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale | 432 | $****** - ****** | L'éternel printemps, 3ème réduction |
sculpture
39 cm (15.38 in)
bronze with green and brown patina
signed 'Rodin' (on the right side of the rock), inscribed with foundry mark 'F. BARBEDIENNE. FONDEUR.' (on the left side of the rock)
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 29 October 1970, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass, March-May 2015, p. 64, no. 31 (illustrated in color, p. 65).
L. Maillard, Auguste Rodin, Statuaire, Paris, 1899, pp. 121-122 (marble version illustrated, fig. 16).
G. Grappe, Catalogue du Musée Rodin, Paris, 1927, p. 42, nos. 69-70 (another cast illustrated).
G. Grappe, Le Musée Rodin, Paris, 1947, p. 141 (another version illustrated, pl. 56).
R. Descharnes and J.F. Chabrun, Auguste Rodin, Lausanne, 1967, p. 135 (larger version illustrated in color, p. 134).
I. Jianou and C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967, p. 96 (another cast illustrated, pls. 56-57).
L. Steinberg, Other Criteria, Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford, 1972, p. 428, no. 232 (marble version illustrated, p. 365).
J.L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, The Collection of the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1976, pp. 241, 244-245 and 247, no. 32b (other versions illustrated, pp. 242-243 and 246, figs. 32-3 and 32-4).
A.E. Elsen, Rodin's Art, The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, pp. 494-497, no. 148 (another cast illustrated, pp. 494-495, fig. 413; larger version illustrated, p. 496, fig. 414).
A. Le Normand-Romain, The Bronzes of Rodin, Catalogue of Works in the Musée Rodin, Paris, 2007, vol. I, p. 334 (another cast illustrated).
A. Le Normand-Romain, Rodin, New York, 2013, p. 146 (terracotta version illustrated, fig. 138; plaster version illustrated in color, p. 147, fig. 139).
this bronze version cast between 1910-1918
